Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Cool! I'm on FreeDarko! Also, Welcome from FreeDarko!
First of all, if you read this site but you don't read FreeDarko, I don't understand you, and I can't imagine that many of you are getting there from here. Anyways, I saw that Shoals was planning to write something about my classmate OJ Mayo, so while I was doing the essay portion of a diversity and racial conflict midterm and properly in a racial-thinking mindset, I shot him an email about O.J., and he's actually put it up as a guest post. Shoals is the coolest guy in the history of ever. Here's the link: I hope you enjoy it; it's a little bolder racial-issue wise than what I usually put up here, and I was hoping to hide behind Shoals a bit, as racial attitudes are regularly and skillfully discussed over there, but I'm perfectly willing to deal with the full implications of the post, as well as the pressure of trying to hold my own on my favorite longform NBA site. I think. (Gulp.) And if you're visiting from FreeDarko, I implore you to stick around and check out the scenery; I've got some good stuff on tap for the next few days, and hopefully you'll like it.
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4 comments:
you write that like you are surprised. america is a racist country. blacks have known this since we got here.
mos
if you are a young black man and you mess up once to white people you are a n*****. however, white people are allowed their 'youthful indiscretions'.
mayo unfortunately messed up.
mos
I'm not saying I'm surprised that racism still exists, especially in the world of sports journalism, I'm just saying it makes me nervous to write about it, since anything that deals with the issue of race in these times turns inflammatory and sensational, and almost always leads to half the people reading it thinking that the author is a racist, which are all things I'm not interested in.
My "Diversity and Racial Conflict" class has basically been one point, repeatedly proven, for two solid months: "OF COURSE THERE'S STILL RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU PRIVILEGED LITTLE PRICKS! OPEN YOUR GODDAMN EYES!"
haha...well said.
i'm a big fan of your blog. i found it via true hoop. i was surprised when i found out you were younger then me; you had seemed a seasoned sports writer, with a cigar and a gravely voice.
anyway...keep up the good writing.
mos
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